Grateful to my former union (I’m retired) @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social /AFT for its work on this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Coming soon, very soon: thehill.com/opinion/heal...

I wrote something Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

Can current or military people on bluesky tell me exactly what it is taught at the military academies and what is expected as you rise through the ranks that necessitates you getting a lecture on warrior ethos?

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-.... Today in irony: RFK Junior cuts 40 million in autism research

penncapital-star.com/health/penns... A GREAT REBUKE TO RJK, JR.

Well-known risk factor for autism: paternal age. Need federal warning. “Advanced parental age and autism risk in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis” Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2017 Jan;135(1):29-41. doi: 10.1111/acps.12666. Epub 2016 Nov 14. PMID: 27858958.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

PUBLIC HEALTH: IT ISN’T JUST DATABASES THAT NEED TO BE SAVED Want government accountability? Start with the archives. open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Sara Carter, former Fox News journalist, defends qualifications to serve as ‘drug czar’ www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/s... I wrote a book on fetal alcohol. Am I qualified to run the NIAAA?

Since I have written about PRAMS and have watched its defunding I know we will see more articles like this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

whyy.org/articles/sla... MINISTRY OF TRUTH ATTACK

Trump Guts Public Health Efforts to Clean Up Tainted Fish open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

I looked through the MAHA report so you don’t have to do it. Nothing on poverty. Blames SNAP recipients for buying Ultra Processed Foods. It will get a full takedown by experts, but it won’t be taken down until RFK, Jr and his team are gone.

Instead of rebranding it as the War Department, why not live up to the moment and call it the Department of Peace and then add the Department of Truth, the Department of Love, and the Department of Plenty? #OurOrwellianWorld

A partial list of politicians and organizations that have called for RFK Jr to resign

Have you ordered your copy? @nursingclio.bsky.social

Step one: know the problem (see below). Step two: fight back

A Labor Day shoutout to my union #RutgersAAUPAFT. Thanks to our collective efforts I am able to have a great retirement.

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social Thank you for making it easy for us to write to our elected officials about making the latest Covid vaccine available to all. I wrote: actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...

Protecting Donuts/Destroying Democracy. Good t-shirt slogan, right? The Situation: I Support It All www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

An important reminder of the administration’s war on women and children. Burning Birth Control: Trump’s Incendiary Act open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

I got my copy you should rush out and get yours #NursingClio

As the US plans to destroy birth control products once headed for Africa. The Forgotten Lessons of Birth Control open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

'Distortions and Distractions': Grassroots Public Health Group Levels RFK Jr's Latest MAHA Venture www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-...

www.defendpublichealth.org/resource/imp... READ, SHARE, & GET ACTIVE #IHATnotMAHA #WantedKidKillerRFKJr

jackiewolf1.substack.com/p/justifying... How the cruelty of health care cuts is justified by the current regime. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

We know how we got here. Bullets in the windows open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

“Americans across the country will soon learn, if they have not already learned, that the president’s “concept of a plan” for health care is to make health insurance prohibitively expensive for millions.” By our own @mirandayaver.bsky.social!

www.thehastingscenter.org/the-scientif.... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social @cethompson.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led....

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan....

Is Public Health Dead? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump's Supplement Peddlers @defendpublichealth.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

The proposed 2026 FY budget eliminates the Healthy Start Program, which works to improve health outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy? The war on children continues. Write to your elected officials and let them know you are watching what they are doing. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

“If Medicaid expansion is eliminated in North Carolina, Martin General Hospital almost surely will not reopen — “a catastrophic and deadly consequence… Not having the hospital here is costing lives,” Mr. Roberson said… “This is the most important thing for us.”

Our own @mirandayaver.bsky.social has a new piece out in Lancet Regional Health on Trump's first 100 days. In not shocking news: it's a disaster for all of us. lnkd.in/ei3mWPW4

Why this activist is putting her body on the line for Americans with disabilities www.statnews.com/2025/07/02/w...

Congratulations to the millionaire Republican Senators (and especially my own millionaire Senator Dave McCormick) on the tax break you voted for yourself and the Health Care and SNAP and other cuts. And on your new motto "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"

A well-done report on the consequences of bad laws www.propublica.org/article/texa...

11.8 million to lose health insurance under Senate Republican tax bill, CBO projects www.statnews.com/2025/06/29/1... CALL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social described the meeting as a “circus-like atmosphere” rather than the typically staid, academic one.” Our own @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social speaking truth to power!